Encyclopedia of Microtonal Music Theory

Ptolemaic interpretation

[John Chalmers, Divisions of the Tetrachord]

An interpretation of Aristoxenos's thirty acoustically equal "parts" to the Perfect Fourth [in ancient Greek music theory] as aliquot parts of a vibrating string 120 units in length. While incorrect because the resulting intervals are not perceptually equal, interesting tetrachords result.

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